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CVE-2022-32205
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 31.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-07-07 · updated 2026-10-14
- Weakness: CWE-770
Description
A malicious server can serve excessive amounts of `Set-Cookie:` headers in a HTTP response to curl and curl < 7.84.0 stores all of them. A sufficiently large amount of (big) cookies make subsequent HTTP requests to this, or other servers to which the cookies match, create requests that become larger than the threshold that curl uses internally to avoid sending crazy large requests (1048576 bytes) and instead returns an error.This denial state might remain for as long as the same cookies are kept, match and haven't expired. Due to cookie matching rules, a server on `foo.example.com` can set cookies that also would match for `bar.example.com`, making it it possible for a "sister server" to effectively cause a denial of service for a sibling site on the same second level domain using this method.
Affected products
- Apple macOS: before 13.0 — fixed in 13.0
- Debian Linux: 11.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
- curl: from 7.71.0 before 7.84.0 — fixed in 7.84.0
- Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
- NetApp Element Software: all versions
- NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
- NetApp Hci Management Node: all versions
- NetApp Solidfire: all versions
- Siemens Scalance Sc622-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Siemens Scalance Sc626-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Siemens Scalance Sc632-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Siemens Scalance Sc636-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Siemens Scalance Sc642-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Siemens Scalance Sc646-2C Firmware: before 3.0 — fixed in 3.0
- Splunk Universal Forwarder: from 8.2.0 before 8.2.12; from 9.0.0 before 9.0.6; 9.1.0 — fixed in 8.2.12, 9.0.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple macOS 13.0; curl 7.84.0; Siemens Scalance Sc622-2C Firmware 3.0; Siemens Scalance Sc626-2C Firmware 3.0; Siemens Scalance Sc632-2C Firmware 3.0; Siemens Scalance Sc636-2C Firmware 3.0; Siemens Scalance Sc642-2C Firmware 3.0; Siemens Scalance Sc646-2C Firmware 3.0; Splunk Universal Forwarder 8.2.12, 9.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1569946
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BEV6BR4MTI3CEWK2YU2HQZUW5FAS3FEY/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202212-01
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220915-0003/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5197
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-333517.pdf
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